Today was Springfest! I went to school with my iPod and speakers, my wallet, a deck of cards, my sunglasses, and two pens. When I got to school it was business as usual, we played cards in the cafeteria before homeroom. I lost, like usual. At 7:43 (!), I went to homeroom, actually, I ran to homeroom. I was a minute late but my teacher oddly enough didn’t care if anyone was late today. After homeroom the sophomore class went to the upper gym where we listened to the student council speeches. Gabe’s was the best, it was really funny. After that we went back to homeroom to vote. I voted, and everyone but one person I voted for won. After this we went to the auditorium to listen to Scott Greenberg, a motivational speaker. He was great. And after that we moved over to the gym again for the Knowledge Bowl, which is like a trivia contest between the students and faculty. The faculty won. Then we all were free to do whatever we pleased. There were booths set up behind the school, so we headed out there. Katie, Abby, and Chelsea wanted to go to the middle school and see old teachers (ugh), so I stayed with Dinah. First we stood in line for 10 minutes to buy Springfest shirts. They’re black and say “Got Springfest?” on the front and a cow on the back. Lame, I know, but whatever. Then I purchased a slice of pizza, as did Dinah, and I got some tickets so I could get some Dr Pepper. I got two cans and shared some with Dinah. Then we just hung around for awhile talking to people and such. Later I got my yearbook. It’s nice. I got it signed and later it was time to go back to homeroom. And after that was the faculty talent show. They sang and danced to “It’s My Party”. And Josh Ouzer did some magic tricks. Mr. Engel told Josh that he had to do whatever trick that he could come up with. Mr. Engel instructed him to do a simple card trick (pick a card, etc.), but while in a straitjacket, and the card had to reappear somewhere else. So Josh took off his shirt (a tradition), put on the straitjacket, and had Mr. Engel pick a card. Then the card went back into the deck and the deck went into Mr. Engel’s pocket. Josh then escaped from the straitjacket in less than a minute (by dislocating his shoulders) and popped a balloon above his head, and out came the deck of cards. And then Josh found the right card. Amazing. After that I went home.
On the bus ride home it started pouring 2 minutes before it got my my neighborhood. It was pouring so hard that Driver John actually dropped us off in front of our houses. This hasn’t happened since 5th grade. I was amazing, and glad that I didn’t get very wet. At 3:30pm my dad and I drove to pick up Liz from school so we could finally go see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! When we got to the theater we went in to purchase tickets, but the ticket lady said it wasn’t showing at 3:55pm. Turns out they change the times on Friday, so the paper I looked at the day before was for last week. I was sad, but then we bought a newspaper and discovered it was playing in Canidagua, 20 minutes away. So we drove there and bought tickets. The movie was so good! There were so many good parts, but I can only quote one:
Arthur: Normality? We can talk about normality until the cows come home.
Trillian: What is normality?
Ford: What is home?
Zaphod: What’re cows?
The movie was hilarious, just like the book. The two are pretty similar, but there were definitely some differences. After the movie went to Chili’s for dinner and we all got ribs. On the way home we quoted our favorite lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
